"I don't know why you make snide jokes about the Empire, Matt," he said in a rather prickly way.

In the past few years, the phrase has turned into a snide joke uttered derisively by millions.

But it drew snide jokes in 2000, when Time magazine published excerpts.

In the comedy, however, Madame Pinglet bears the brunt of all the snide jokes.

He often made snide little jokes about my lack of appeal.

It must be said that Palm Beach is - all snide jokes about its residents' bank accounts and fashion sense aside - quite lovely.

But no, instead there were the looks and whispers, the snide jokes.

The indecisiveness of last year's election gave the nation a civics lesson, but one that lent itself to snide jokes, not grave consideration.

It was the kind of hammering that used to create snide jokes in the distant days when the Mets were the worst team in baseball.

The strip was referred to in an unflattering light in a typically snide joke from an episode of Family Guy.